Internet Star Corporation

Ruperto Elpusan is CEO and President of Internet Star Corporation. He is a multi-industry entrepreneur, inventor, author and businessman with a focus on information technology and recently on the Internet and world wide web.

He started out as systems analyst at Exxon Corporation in Linden, New Jersey, after graduating from New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration with an MBA degree in Computer Applications and Information Systems, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics/Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His computer career spanned IBM mainframe to client-server and Internet web technologies, having thorough exposure to the entire System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) working in the trenches as programmer and later being in charge of multi-million dollar development projects as project manager. He has worked from California to New York in the United States and as far away as Saudi Arabia (The Saudi Arabian Oil Company - Saudi Aramco), where he has worked for over six years.

The turning point in Ruperto's entrepreneurial came with the advent of the world wide web. At the time, he was heavily immersed in client-server technology in the mid-90's, which was quite popular at the time. This event became the creative blackboard that Ruperto worked with and quickly became successful with.

Ruperto calls Rancho Palos Verdes in California home where he resides with his wife and twin daughters.